Lee Health Coconut Point is on track for its projected fall 2018 opening.

Lee Health expects construction on the $140 million health and wellness village to be completed in July 2018 and for the facility to open for business in November 2018, said Suzanne Bradach, Lee Health director of special projects.

"When we say a year from now, we mean a year from now," Bradach said. "It's kind of exciting when you look at the calendar."

Bradach provided a progress report and schedule Tuesday afternoon to a healthcare meeting of members of the Estero Council of Community Leaders, a community action group in Estero.

The two-story, 30-acre medical campus will include an ambulance entrance, 24/7 emergency services, a rehabilitation department, ancillary services and a healthy life center with a demonstration kitchen on the first floor of the building.

The second floor will include the surgery center and medical clinics with 60 to 70 exam rooms, Bradach said.

Bradach also told Estero residents Tuesday afternoon that Lee Health is building the Coconut Point facility to hospital construction standards so an addition could be built in the future.

Lee Health's plan for a hospital was rejected by state regulators in 2014.

"We will be working in collaboration with the village to develop a master plan down the road for how we will incorporate all of the programs there into the programming at the Coconut Point facility," Bradach said.

Greenwood said Lee Health is also currently working on plans for hiring, discussing programs and the overall guest experience at the medical campus.